Following last week’s post on the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court YouTube channel, here we are again but this time in Brazil.
Category Archives: Resources
UK Supreme Court offers a YouTube channel
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has a YouTube channel (“UKSupremeCourt“) which includes video recordings of judgments.
Lexical portal – French
This is a really useful resource in French placed online by the French National Centre for Scientific Research. I find that it’s especially good when searching for rarer words, or words that are no longer often used. Enjoy!
BelTerme – a quadrilingual term bank from Belgium
Those of you working from French into English, Dutch or German may be interested in the BelTerme term bank from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, containing around 4000 term records. Many are sourced from the Journal Officiel (the official gazette).
Online access to judgments of the Supreme Court of India
This well organized simple website provides access in particular to judgments, the India Code, and various court websites.
Financial Times Lexicon
Although this blog is devoted to all things legal and linguistic, we all know that there is a blurring of boundaries with financial topics, so I thought you might be interested in this excellent glossary over at the Financial Times newspaper.
Legislationline
Legislationline, a free of charge online legislative database, was created in 2002 to assist Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) participating States in bringing their legislation into line with relevant international human rights standards.
United Nations Research Guides & Resources updated
This alphabetically organized webpage gives an “overview of the wide variety of information and documentation resources made available by various entities across the United Nations System“.
Do you think like a lawyer?
My preferred title for this post was actually “The Law School Admission Test or sudoku?”
The other day I came across the website of the LSAT (the Law School Admission Test). It forms part of the law school admission process in the United States, parts of Canada, and some other countries.
Multijurisdictional contract law database
I’m sure that a considerable amount of many legal translators’ work consists of contracts or agreements of one sort or another. The Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA) has a good resource, useful for both lawyers and translators – the EC Contract Law Database.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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